board game in flash

I'm making a simple board game in Flash (using Actionscript 3), and I'm not sure how to get the counter/board piece to go around the board. Its really simple, all that needs to happen is to roll a dice (thats the easy part, obviously) and then get the piece to move that many places along the board. I've seen a few ways to do this, but ive struggled to follow exactly how to do them and i would like to know the most effective way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.